Francisco Ordóñez
Microparameters in Romance Languages in Europe and the Americas: Topic Subjects and Proper Nouns
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Francisco Ordóñez
Francisco Ordóñez
Francisco Ordóñez was trained in the study of formal linguistics. His specialization has been the comparative study of the syntax of Spanish, its varieties and other Romance languages such as Catalan, French, Italian and Occitan dialects. His present research involves the study of the syntactic differences of the dialects of Spanish spoken in Latin America and Spain. In 2006 he received a three-year National Science Foundation Grant to study “Stress Patterns with Clitics and Weak Pronominals in Post-Verbal Position in Romance” with Lori Repetti for the amount of $192,000. He also co-founded Romania Nova with Mary Kato of Universidade de Campinas (Brazil). This projects explores varieties of Spanish and Portuguese spoken in Latin America.
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Francisco Ordóñez
Microparameters in Romance Languages in Europe and the Americas: Topic Subjects and Proper Nouns
The first part of the talk will focus on why we do comparative syntax and how it enriches our empirical and theoretical findings . I will provide two examples. The first one concerns the Topic Subject construction in BP. Kato and Ordóñez provide a new perspective on this issue focusing on the loss of third person proclitics in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Proper nouns also present variation. Some Romance languages allow determiners with proper nouns like Catalan or Southern BP. New evidence by Bernstein, Ordóñez and Roca shows the presence vs absence of article shows a different syntax and pragmatics for proper names.